"Our ancestors, before their emigration to America, were the free inhabitants of the British dominions in Europe, and po...

"Our ancestors, before their emigration to America, were the free inhabitants of the British dominions in Europe, and possessed a right which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice, has placed them, of going in quest of new habitations, and of there establishing new societies, under such laws and regulations as to them shall seem most likely to promote public happiness. That their Saxon ancestors had, under this universal law, in like manner left their native wilds and woods in the north of Europe, had possessed themselves of the island of Britain, then less charged with inhabitants, and had established there that system of laws which has so long been the glory and protection of that country."

📜 Summary View of the Rights of British America, Thomas Jefferson, 1774
🎨 G. Harvey, Tracks in the Snow, 1967